Pickled Cucumbers with red beet – Recipe for winter

Why do we love pickled cucumbers? Because they have a great taste , they are healthy, because they fit well with a steak, a bean sauce or a potato stew and, even if we put hot brine inside them, has remains an optimal temperature for the development of good bacteria , the probiotics. If we use vinegar, it would inhibit their development.

The red beet, besides it’s nutritional intake, gives it a color that you fall in love with. Clear!

When I decided to write the recipe and make the photo shoot, I was just thinking, that I can not surprise in those photos, their beauty. When it begins to ferment, the picture no longer looks magical.

Pickled Cucumbers with red beet – Recipe for winter

Cucumbers

Beet

Horseradish

Garlic

Salt

Dried dill and fenugreek flowers

Cherry twigs

I did not give the quantity, because the recipe is folding about the situation.

Cucumbers used most Cornison variety, the smallest variants, because we put them whole.

We wash the cucumber and cut a little from their heads. We washe the beet and peel it. Horseradish is cleaned and cut into slices.

Clean jars begin to fill up 🙂

Put the cherry twigs down, then put whole cucumbers as much as you can. Between the rows we put thin slices of beets, slices of garlic, slices of horseradish. When we get up, put the dried dill and fenugreek flowers and two twigs of cherry, in X, to better support the cucumbers in the brine.

The brine is made from one tablespoon of salt to 1 liter of water. The salt spoon puts it a bit high, not a breed. We calculate the amount of brine as follows: the capacity of the jars divided to 2, ± 100 ml, depends on how well we organized everything in the jar. If there are large spaces left, you can cut a cucumber and put slices in length or width.

Place the jars on a tray cooker, or place metal knife blades underneath them to prevent cracks.

The brine is boiled and it is poured over the cucumber, in the center of the jar. Fill jars, caps, and leave at rest for 24 hours.

After a day, empty the brine back into the pot and boil again, then put on the cucumbers. Close the jars with lid and store in the cold store.